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OpenLight Sponsors the Tower Semiconductor, Technical Global Symposium TGS 2025
TGS 2025 will be held on 18 November in Santa Clara and attended by OpenLight’s leadership and commercial teams.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., November 13, 2025 — OpenLight, a leader in custom Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (PASIC) chip design and manufacturing based on heterogeneous integration, is to sponsor TGS USA 2025, Tower Semiconductor’s Technical Global Symposium.
Taking place this year in Santa Clara, California on November 18, 2025, the Symposium enables the discussion of several critical breakthroughs from across the electronics and photonics industries that have taken place throughout the past 12 months, with the event also enabling opportunities for networking and collaboration.
Adam Carter, OpenLight CEO said: "We are proud to sponsor Tower’s Technical Global Symposium again this year, and look forward to discussing the innovations that will define the next generation of photonics. Tower Semiconductor is taking a leading role in the photonics space and this event underscores the value of our partnership in this sector."
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About OpenLight
OpenLight is the world leader in custom PASIC design.
OpenLight’s PASIC technology and Photonics Development Kit (PDK) integrate all the components of silicon photonics devices, both active and passive components, into one chip. Its executive and engineering teams deliver the world’s first open silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers, modulators, amplifiers and detectors to improve the performance, power efficiency and reliability of designs for datacom, AI, high-performance computing, telecom, automotive and industrial sensing, IoT sensing, healthcare and quantum computing applications.
The company secured Series A funding in August 2025 and this, combined with its 360-strong patent portfolio is enabling OpenLight to bring optical solutions to places it has never been before and underpin technologies and innovation that weren’t previously possible. The company is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, with offices in Silicon Valley.
Read more at www.openlightphotonics.com
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